Word: philadelphia
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...offensive weapons, he said, it would just set off a new and dangerous round in the arms race as each side looked for ways to overwhelm the other's defenses. "If the new technologies cannot meet these standards," said Nitze in a speech to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, "we are not about to deploy them...
...produced has been aptly called Malice in Wonderland. One survey by the Libel Defense Resource Center of cases that resulted in large jury awards for damages shows that four of the ten biggest were brought by public officials, and dozens of suits are pending, at least 18 in Philadelphia alone. These plaintiffs may be responding to a perceived shift in public opinion against the news media, or to a general litigious impulse in our society, or to the publicity given to strikingly high jury damage awards. In part, the press has itself to blame: the multimillion-dollar awards in recent...
...RICO law had already been used to indict some Mafia clan leaders in New York (including Carmine Persico, 51, a Colombo family chieftain), Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Rochester. Charges of skimming $2 million in cash from casinos in Las Vegas have also been leveled against high Mafia figures in Chicago, Kansas City and Milwaukee...
...core of the federal case is expected to be its charge that the Mafia is governed by a national commission consisting of the five New York bosses and family leaders from Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Cleveland, Philadelphia and New England. Federal investigators contend that the Mob's most lucrative operations and major disciplinary acts, including the elimination of top figures who have disobeyed the rules, must be approved by the commission and that the New York bosses effectively control this ruling body. Investigators say that Corallo talked frequently about the commission in his conversations in the Jaguar. Thus...
DIED. Efrem Zimbalist, 94, Russian-born violinist of high technical polish and emotional understatement, a considerable composer of songs and chamber music and a musical administrator and teacher who for 27 years, until 1968, headed Philadelphia's Curtis Institute; in Reno. He was the father and grandfather, respectively, of TV Actors Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Stephanie Zimbalist...